BIOLOGIST

Anna Atkins

1799 - 1871

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Anna Atkins (née Children; 16 March 1799 – 9 June 1871) was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Atkins has received more than 398,399 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia. Anna Atkins is the 180th most popular biologist (down from 160th in 2019), the 1,033rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,003rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular British Biologist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 400k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.05

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.24

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among BIOLOGISTS

Among biologists, Anna Atkins ranks 180 out of 1,097. Before her are Ana Aslan, Wilhelm Johannsen, George Wald, Giuseppe Acerbi, Jakob von Uexküll, and Theodor Escherich. After her are George Robert Gray, Georg Wilhelm Steller, Peter Medawar, Stephen Jay Gould, Armand David, and Jeffrey C. Hall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1799, Anna Atkins ranks 12. Before her are William Lassell, Gustav, Prince of Vasa, Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, Karl Bryullov, Charles II, Duke of Parma, and Fromental Halévy. After her are Christian Friedrich Schönbein, Rodolphe Töpffer, Karl Adolph von Basedow, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, John Lindley, and Vincenz Priessnitz. Among people deceased in 1871, Anna Atkins ranks 15. Before her are Omar Pasha, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Wilhelm von Tegetthoff, Wilhelm Weitling, Alexander Afanasyev, and Jean Eugène Robert-Houdin. After her are Filippo Taglioni, Jarosław Dąbrowski, Anselme Payen, Princess Leopoldina of Brazil, Charles Paul de Kock, and Mehmed Emin Âli Pasha.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Atkins ranks 1,033 out of 8,785. Before her are Mary Mallon (1869), John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (1718), Ricky Gervais (1961), Woodes Rogers (1679), Jeremy Brett (1933), and Michael Palin (1943). After her are George Robert Gray (1808), Henry Tingle Wilde (1872), John Balliol (1249), Sebastian Shaw (1905), Kenny Baker (1934), and James Murray (1837).

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Among BIOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among biologists born in United Kingdom, Anna Atkins ranks 25. Before her are Charles Scott Sherrington (1952), John Ray (1627), William Carey (1761), William Bateson (1861), Martin Evans (1941), and John Boyd Orr (1880). After her are George Robert Gray (1808), Ian Wilmut (1944), Henry Walter Bates (1825), George Shaw (1751), Charles Bell (1774), and Oldfield Thomas (1858).

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